A Holiday in Baiardo

This is a place for you to think, read, write, play, practise, paint, to be what you choose at the pace you choose.

If you want to be alone, perfect. If not, the people of the village are open and warm. If you want to explore there are plenty of hikes into the mountains and to the surrounding villages, or if it’s time to relax just take a chair down to the terrace and enjoy the sun, until it begins to set over the mountain & eventually disappears into the sea.

In the afternoon, if you shade your eyes from the sun as it bounces off the sea and over the valleys and smaller mountains, you can see the French Alps that rise more than 3000 metres above sea level. When you venture into the centre of the village for groceries the shopkeepers will laugh with you as you try to differentiate between "panne" and "pane" (whipped cream and bread). You can play cards with the old men at the Bar Rubino or sit on the terrace with Gianni Peldi. Mostly though, you can live simply, quietly, at your own pace in a very real part of Italy that the tour guides and the text books have over-looked.

Practical information 

Baiardo is home to 2 restaurants,  a cafe pâtisserie, 3 grocery shops, a bar, a post office and a central church with regular services.

If you are driving up to Baiardo, there is parking space in the village centre, it is then a short, steep walk up to the guest house (approximately 5 minutes).

You need to be quite fit and well to enjoy staying here. From the village centre to the guest house the paths, although newly cobbled, are steep and narrow. Once you get up to the guest house, the path between the apartments & down to the terraces are very old, uneven and steps are irregular. Within the apartments the stairs are mostly quite steep and in most cases there are no banisters.  

If you are interested in organising & running a short course or series of workshops here, we would be delighted to discuss this with you.